Omaha daily bee., 1887-12-30

500 is nearer the average. His assist
ants are graded from $40 to s75 and the
bookkeeper and cashier will probably
get 500. The bell-boys and elevator
boys receive from $l2 to $40 each; the
porters from $25 TO $40; the watchmen
the same. ID
The houskeeper is usually an elderly
woman of some capacity, and will re-
ceive from $50 to Sl0 per month. The
linen-room girl, who is also a seama
stress, and who has generally risen from
the ranks, gets from $25 to $35; the
chambermaids and scrub-women from
Sl2 to s1S; the laundresses from SIG to
$50.
The service of hotel is like nothing
so much as huge army. The proprie-
tor, generalissimo; the steward, chief
of staff, commissary. and quartermaster;
the chief clerk, adjutant and aid-de-
camp. In several houses in New York
the force numbers over three hundred
people.
The american plan" house is, out
side of the larger cities, the most num-
erOus. BY this plan the custom is to set
certain number OF meals in the din
ing-room daily, the charge per day CIV
ing tho guest the right to partake of as
many of them as he chooses. The Eu-
ropean plan,, so called, is the term APP
piled to those hotels which predominant
in the eastern cities and are fast gain
headway throughout the country, where
rooms are rented with gas, service, etc.,
and where you are at liberty to order
your meals la carte either IN the res
taurant attached to the house or at any
other place you choose. In regard to
these different plans each has its ad-
vantages. If the man be Il good feeder
he ought certainly to live on the Amei-
can plan. 1t is a great saving to him
self. II. on the contrary, his appetite is
''like a BIRDS" and he doesn't care to
have anything heavier than milk and
mush for breakfast, he will find the Eu-
ropean plan advantageous.
Even in the average hostelry OF 300
rooms the uninitiated can have no con-
ception of the amount of food required
to feet its guests. Anticipated patrons
may not materialize, but ample provi-
sion must be made just the same to pro-
tect the house in case of emergency. A
fair yearly average would be about as
follows:
Beef, 100000 pound; mutton and
lamb, 80, 600 pounds; corned beef, 10000
pounds; veal, 1900 pounds; ham,
bacon and tongue, $4,000 pounds; fresh
pork, 10000 pounds; poultry, 10000
i
barrels; coffee, 6,OOO pounds; tea, l 500
pounds; milk and cream, 15, 200 gallons;
butter, $1,000 pounds; oysters and clans,
200, 600; potatoes, 800 bushels: tomatoes,
100 bushels, and 5000 cans; corn, 5000
dozen ears and 5000 cans, In addition
to these there are innumerable vegeta-
bles and extras which amount to about
one-tenth as much again. Coal will av-
erage from ten to twenty tons weekly in
summer, and from twenty to fifty tons
| per week during the winter months.
The quantity OF ice used throughout the
| year will average 800 tons.
Should the ambitious young man de-
| sire to start in the hotel business, all
he needs is the capital-the experience
| will come soon enough. A moderate
most cities for $4,000 or $4,000 per
| year; IL there is an established trade
and the house is favorably and widely
known, it will be higher. Location
and accessibility are the two important
factors in success, and the tone OF the
house must be modelled to fit the class
of trade which is expected If it is in
tended to cater to family business, the
location should be. quiet neighbor-
hood, and the bar and billiard rooms
should be adjuncts to the hotel--instead
| OF the hotel being an adjunct to them
as is usually the case in O commercial
travellers house.
A capable steward is the prime re.
quisite-one that understands keeping
a few dozen oyster shells in a bucket OF
cold water, and using them as the re.
ceptacle OF the little shriveled canned
oyster when an order is received for
"oysters on the half-shell."
Then let the neophyte shake of al
care and attend to the front OF the
house." Let him receive guests in such
a manner that they may feel or imagine
their Importance. Let him be careful
to call no one by a smaller title thar
governor or Colonel" Let him
accept the invitation of everyone wht
mods toward the bar and requests tt
know the nature of his particular poison
and above all let him reciprocate the
attention in kind. rc~